A lone South Korean soldier in Ukraine finds familiar foes in a strange land

Open this photo in gallery: ‘The whole world should be helping Ukraine,’ says Lee Byung-hun, believed to be the only South Korean enlisted with Ukrainian forces. He says this service is a way of ‘showing my respect to my heroes,’ the western nations that fought in the 1950s to save South Korea from the North. When he was a soldier in the South Korean army, Lee Byung-hun spent much of his three-year service peering across the Demilitarized Zone at the North Korean army on the other side. Back then, he considered the soldiers he watched through his binoculars to be…